The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-11
A NEW VENTURE.
A Wall Street Man Who Extends Hi
Energies to New Fields.

A Wall Street Man Who Extends His
Energies to New Fields.
New YORK, Oct S-When New York
banker leaves the business turmoil of Wal
street where his energies have been taxed
in escaping the horns of the bulls and the
claws of the bears his fancy is supposed tc
lightly turn to thoughts of repose. A spin
over the road in a trim Brewster a we'll
arranged dinner with a due assortment of
wines, and a good seat at the theatre seem
the most beguiling variation on the mental
strain of Wall street. When, instead OF
this sort of thing, a banker elects the man
agement of big amusement scheme where
the success is a doubt at the start and the
worry is a steady element, it becomes an in
teresting problem to determine his
idea Of recreation. This is what
Mr.. Hellman has done When he
goes up town after bushes hours he be-
takes himself to the Eden Musee and takes
an active personal conduct of that place of
amusement. He likes it. 1t amrlseS him.
Those benevolent people, whose zeal for their
fellow creatures leads them into fluent pre-
dictions of disaster when something new is
undertaken, charitably assured him he
couldn't make the thing a go" Wax
figures couldn't be elevated to the level of
responsibility. The crowds would be coarse.
and if it drew only that kind of audience it
wasn't going to draw a paying one The
facetious philosopher of old solved the OBJ
jections against the possibility of movement
by getting up and walking. Mr.. Hellman
adopted similar method. He proved that
the Eden Musee could be run as he projected
it and pay, by so running it and finding it
pay.
Encouraged, perhaps, by his success, Mr.
Helman has lately attempted something
still more difficult. An impartial, generous
treatment of the work of native American
artists is a thing that any good man can
take an interest in. This is what Mr.. He'll
man wishes to accomplish now. He is a
member of the New York Society for the
Promotion of Art, and he has added a gal
lery to the Eden Musee, which is placed I'M
der the auspices of the body with view to
this result.
few days ago good crowd of invited
patrons assisted at the opening of this gal
lery. 1t is of modest dimensions, but taste
fully, even richly, decorated. An elevator
happy medium Of transportation raised
the visitors from the wax figgers" and
Munck Lajor's unframed gypsies to the
higher art of the floor above. No extra
charge is exacted for a visit to the gallery.
If Mr. Hellman succeeds in making of
his new gallery a court where justice and
generosity are shown to the American dis
ciples of brush and pigment he will do a
praiseworthy thing and one of no easy
accomplishment.
The present collection numbers sixtv-four
canvaseS. Some are the work of foreign
artists, but many are from the painters on
this side of the water. The exhibit is a very
creditable one, and several of the pictures
show an encouraging degree of ability. The
largest one in the collection is Charles
GirOn's ''Deux Soeursn But il is not the
best, and the American public will proba-
bly, view the American painters with more
interest. The result of Mr. Hellman's new
venture cannot help being interesting, and,
in case of success, gratifying to all art low
ers of New York JOHN j. ABECHET